Remember Bobby Allison Pitching Roast Beef Sandwiches?

Old Bobby Allison Hardee's TV commercial:

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updated by @dave-fulton: 04/04/17 04:27:23PM

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Ranier Racing with Bobby Allison picked up Hardee's for their #28 in May 1981, while Cale was in the #27 Valvoline car of MC Anderson. The photo below shows the two of them in the 1981 Firecracker 400 at Daytona:

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Don't apologize, I needed a memory jog, too. Guess Bobby and Davey are in pretty select company of fathers and sons who won for the same car owner.


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In the Richmond,Va. area, for some reason I or my family (Ma-Pa) was cheering for #28 Hardee's driver Bobby instead #28 Hardee's driver Cale.
At that time we were buying Hardee's Charco Broiled" Burgers and Fried Chicken..
Don't remember Hardee's Roast Beef sandwich, only the (smell, looks, or taste) of Arby's Roast Beef sandwich.
I don't remember Arby's sponsoring any race teams??
I got some old "Holly Farms Fried Chicken" (Yellow,Orange, Red color) race team caps when we bought the fried chicken.
Does anyone know if "Holly Farms" or "Golden Skillet" sold "Fried Frog Legs"??
I remember my parents bought them and I enjoyed eating them. They taste better than "Fried Chicken"!!!
I don't remember the "Fried Frog Legs" sponsoring any race team??
Thank you very much for any information given.:)

Don't remember the Frog Legs either place. I definitely remember Hardee's adding the roast beef, though not as good as Arby's in my opinion. I grew up in Richmond, Dennis (graduated from Thomas Jefferson HS in 1966), and remember a Holly Farms Chicken place near Libbie Avenue on Broad Street in the west end. We liked their seasoned potato wedges. Golden Skillet had great fried chicken, I thought. It was pretty much a local Richmond area deal, owned by Thalhimer's Department Stores.


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This 1984 Hardee's commercial for roast beef features the "It's All Here" you used to see on the back of Cale's Hardee's car:

I forgot Matt Kenseth had an Arby's Busch Car a few years back:

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I do love to eat. Hardee's had the Frisco Burger whn I was at the Richmond track and they sponsored the Hardees Frisco 250 Busch race. The City of San Francisco went after them for portraying the cable car operator and they dropped the whole Frisco thing.


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Doesn't Cale own a Hardee's?

I remember Cale owning a number of Hardee's in the early 80s. I was on the roof of one of the Michigan Infield pit road suite complexes in the early 80s standing next to Cale's wife Betty Jo when he was passed for the lead near the end of and IROC race. She was very vocal as to how not winning that race would cost them another Hardee's franchise. I was NOT impressed.


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Here's a link to a pretty fascinating feature story done on Cale by Sports Illustrated in 1968, when he was 29 and starting to enjoy success with the Wood Brothers.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1081462/1/index.htm

The story is pre-Hardee's, but mentions his 60 Minute Cleaners franchises and recounts he and Betty Jo really slumming after jacques Passino of Ford cut him loose, with the two of them sleeping in the back seat of the car and eating peanut butter sandwiches. Paul Sawyer at Richmond used to tell me how in the early 60s he gave Cale money for a motel and then mpney to buy gas back to SC after a Richmond race. According to Paul, Cale had an extremely short memory later when it came to repaying those favors when Paul needed race entries. The story at the link is well worth the read.

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When Junior had guys like LeeRoy, Charlie and Cale in his cars, leading every lap was not out of the question. I had to laugh at the line in the 1968 Sports Illustrated article stating that Darlington was obviously not one ofCale's favorite tracks. That observation is about as wrong as any surmising I've ever seen. When Dale beat Cale at Darlington in the spring 1982 CRC Chemicals Rebel 500 by three feet in Bud's car over MC Anderson's, that was as tired as I ever sawDale after he got out of the car. Beating Cale or David at Darlington was like beating the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.


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